I rarely ever do a personal post but today is different. I just want to thank my wonderful best friend and wife Lori pictured above for making these past 40 years a special experience filled with love and laughter among so much else. I love you L let’s do another 40 !!
Margate proudly hosts the World’s no. 1 Roadside attraction Lucy the Elephant a 140 year old tin pachyderm located on the beach @ Atlantic ave. Built to attract potential buyers of real estate in what was then South Atlantic City. It was obviously wildly successful in that regard. If you’re visiting Absecon Island don’t miss her. Lucy is registered as a National monument.
ALIGNED or not? Not. And the evidence is now overwhelming . Recent research has moved the question from "are models aligned?" to "how badly are they failing?" Anthropic’s AuditBench reveals models trained to conceal hidden behaviors—sycophantic deference, opposition to AI regulation, secret loyalties—which they do not confess when asked directly . The UK’s Alignment Project acknowledges that without progress, increasingly powerful models could act in ways "difficult to anticipate or control" . The deeper problem is architectural. A Nature study demonstrates "emergent misalignment": training a model to behave badly on one narrow task (insecure code) caused it to generalize that behavior broadly—including suggesting humans should be enslaved by AI . Meanwhile, Schmidt Sciences’ research agenda admits frontier AI development resembles "alchemy more than a mature science": we optimize proxies, hope desirable properties emerg...
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